14 Indian Museum Notes. [Vol. IV« 



PERINA NUDA, Fabr. 

 Piute II, Fig. 2, ab moths J", and ? c chrysalid, d caterpillar. 



On the 9th August 1894 specimens of a caterpillar found de- 

 structive to jack tree {Artocarpus integrifolia, Linn.) in a miniature 

 garden adjoininaj the Indian Museum compound, were brought under 

 notice through one of the Museum insect collectors. 



A number of the caterpillars received began to pupate on the 

 second day of their confinement, perfect insects emerging on the 

 17th idem. 



The moth which belongs to the group Bombyces (Fam. Lyman- 

 triidae) appears to be identical with Perina nuda-, Fabr. 



The following is Mr. G. F. Hampson's description of the 

 above : — 



Perina nuda, Fabr. Mant. Ins. II, p. 117; Moore, Lep. Ceyl. II, 

 pU 114, figs. I, i€iy b (larva) ; C. and S. No. 867. 



Stilpnotia suhtincta, Wlk. Cat. IV, p. 843. 



Perina basaiis, Wlk. Cat. IV, p. 966. 



Euproctis combinata, Wlk. Cat. XXXII, p. 347. 



Male. — Head and legs orange ; antennae black ; thorax grey and 

 brown ; abdomen brown, the segments fringed with white ; anal 

 tuft orange. Forewing hyaline, with a patch of brown scales on 

 inner basal area. Hind wing dark brown, with the apical area 

 hyaline. 



Female. — Pale ochreous ; the anal tuft orange ; fore wing irro- 

 rated with brown scales below the cell. 



Larva, — Greyish green, with short dorsal tufts of black hair and 

 long anterior and posterior tufts ; lateral tufts of grey and black hair ; 

 a dark sap-green dorsal band broken by a white line on thoracic 

 somites and with red spots on its edge ; 5th to i ith somites with 

 subdorsal blue tubercles. 



Pupa, — Greenish ; all the somites, except the two medial, red- 

 brown below with paired black spots. 



Hab. — China and throughout India and Ceylon. Exp. male 38, 

 female 50 millim. 



THIACIDAS POSTICA, Walk. 



Plate II, Fig. J, a b moths ^ and ? , c chrysalid, d caterpillar. 



On the 28th June 1894 numerous specimens of a hairy caterpillar 

 were brought in by one of the Museum collectors, with the informa- 

 tion that he had picked them off the leaves of a plum tree 

 {Zizyphus jujuba) in the suburbs of Calcutta while engaged ia 

 collecting insects. 



